Toy safe.



J. CHEIN.

TOY SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31, 1912.

Patened May 11,1915.

THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTlJ-LITHQ.l wAsHlNGmN, D, c.

JULIUS CHEIN, 0F UPPER ll/IONTCLAIRj NEW JERSEY.

TOY SAFE.

Application led January 31, 1912.

To all fr0/0m it may concern Be it known that I, JULIUS CHEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Upper Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of N ew .Ierse have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Safes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in toy safes and the object of my invention is to provide a new and useful safe which will register the coins deposited therein. I accomplish this obj ect by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a view of the exterior front face, Fig. 2-is an linterior view of the same and Fig. 3 is a section of the same` on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2, with the door shown in its open position by dotted lines.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

On the inner side of the front face of a toy safe 1, I provide a disk 2 rotatably set on the eyelet pivot 3. On the disk 2 I set the concentric corrugated ring 4. On the side 11 of the safe adjacent the disk 2 I provide a flat spring 5 having its upper end section 51 bent over to engage the corrugations of the ring 4. In the upper part of the bent over edge section 12 of the face 1, I provide a coin slot and therebelow I secure a guide plate 6. A coin 7 inserted in the coin slot is pressed over by the fiat spring S, secured to the side of the safe 1, adjacent the coin slot and the coin 7 is thereby caused to bear against the corrugated ring 4 and, as the coin 7 is pressed downward into the safe, it will cause the corrugated ring 4 with its disk 2 to rou tate so that the upper end section 51 of the flat spring 5 will move from one corrugation to the next, the parts being so set that each coin 7 inserted through the coin slot will rotate the disk 2 the distance of a single corrugation of the ring 4, the bent over end section 51 of the spring 5 serving to limit the movement of the disk 2 and to prevent its reverse rotation. On the reverse side of the disk 2 adjacent the inner side of the face of the safe 1 may be marked a series lof numbers 21 corresponding to the corrugations of the ring 4 and arranged parallel to the circumberence of the disk 2 and in the plane of the aperture 9, so that the numbers are presented to view on the vface of the safe l through the cut out aperture 9 therein. Each safe is adapted for use with coins of a Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 674,475.

single denomination and the numbers 21 on the disk 2 will correspond to the denomination of such coins, thus, for a safe adapted for one cent coins the numbers will be consecutive as shown, and in asafe adapted for nickels, the numerals will be multiples of live, and the like method will be followed with reference to the coins to be used, the numbers on the disk 2 being multiples of the value of the coin used. At a point on the circumferential edge section of the disk 2 which will be at the lowest position of the disk 2 when the highest numeral on the outer face of the disk 2 is at the cut out sight 9, I provide a cut out section 10. In the face of the safe 1 I provide a door 1l, hung below its center medial line and intermediate its upper and lower edges by means of a bar 12 passed through ears 13, 13 on the door 11 and like ears 14, 14 on the face of the safe l. 0n the inner face of the door 11 I provide a tongue 15 overlapping the edge section of the disk 2 and lying in the plane of rotation of the cut out section 10 of the disk 2 so that when, by the rotation of the disk 2 its cut out section 10 is brought below the tongue 15 the door 11 will be released and will fall outward permitting access to the interior of the safe and the removal of the coins therefrom. The parts being thus assembled, the door 11 is locked by turning the disk 2 to zero, whereby the cut out section 10 will be brought under the tongue 15 on the door 1l and inserting a coin in the coin aperture and pressing the same down against the corrugated ring 4 while the door 11 is closed. The coin will thereupon engage the corrugated ring 4 and rotate the disk 2 whereby the marginal edge section of the disk 2 will be brought under the tongue 15 of the door 11, locking the door 11, and there will be displayed through the aperture 9 in the face of the safe 1 a number corresponding to the value of the coin so deposited.V As each coin is so inserted the bent over end section 51 of the spring 5 will permit the disk 2 to rotate to the extent of a single corrugation only, and thus permit the display through the aperture 9 of the exact amount deposited and this will continue until the capacity of the safe is reached, when the out out section 10 in the marginal section of the disk 2 again registers with the tongue 15 and thevdoor 11 will swing outward on its bar 12.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

A toy safe including a easing, a disk i'otatably mounted therein, a eoiingated annular flange secui'ed to one sui'faoe of the disk at right angles thereto, the diameter of the flange being less than that of the disk, that portion of the easing above the disk being formed Wit-h a coin slot, means carried by the to guide a deposited coin into edge Contact with the corrugated flange, that poition of the disk pipjeotingbeyond the flange serving as a guide in opposition to said means to hold the ooin in Contact with the 'lange, holding means Carried by the easing to coperatie with the eoiiugations of said flange to Control movement oi the disk, said holding means bearing on the outer sui:-

'fa-ee of the {lange and against the projecting edge of the disk, a. dooi closing` an opening in the easing, the upper portion oi the door extending above the lower portion of the disk, and dooi` looking means Cooperating with the disk beyond the flange, said disk being formed with a slot to permit door ieleasing movement of said looking means in a pi'edetei'mined position of the disk.

In testimony whereof, I have siffned my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day o'lE January 1912.

JULiUs einem Vvitnesses CHARLES A. lVILLIAMsoN, XV. R. OWENS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addiessing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." 

